Borrowed Trouble: Micro Tribute to Mark Strand (1934-2014)
I wouldn’t write at all if it weren’t
for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was possible. The poems
of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks, to those muses. –
Brian Beatty
Mark Strand
In bed as you doze
off
you begin
writing
the paragraph of the
night.
So goes life’s dark
dream:
brimming with romance
one minute,
terror or boredom the
next.
Then out of
nowhere
you’re done.
– Brian Beatty
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Brian's recent collections of poetry are Dust and Stars: Miniatures and Brazil, Indiana.
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Strand brought a certain Hollywood glamour to American poetry during his lifetime. He made it seem cool to read and write poems.
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